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A House Next To Paradise
I have a story to tell of a house I have seen next to paradise. So rustic, so simple with no disguise.
In its living room, there is a painted picture of a lonesome heart brushed by heavenly music, and I guarantee you there is no vice.
In its bedroom there is another picture of a tree-house choreographed with magical dancers of sea-shells, and orchestrated by a Baliness batik in turquoise, amid a painted sun about to rise.
Somewhere in the house, there is a foreign aerodynamic object marked by sea and sand wrinkles; Next to an empty hollow of a black skin eagerly waiting to be attached and form a sea creature.
Through the windows, we can hear whispers of a crystal-clear turquoise object of another world calling for this creature, for one more dance, please…. Come back to my womb, my son!
No resistance is there. The sea creature is about to be reborn a mermaid.
This mystical link between the two is not of a voodoo magic; they need each other.
The proximity of a house is an undoubted fate of an ever-lasting love affair between the two: An alluring siren disguised in sun-kissed blue sky form, and the mermaid.
This house is next to paradise And a sea creature of human qualities lives there. I know. I shook his hand last night
By Tariq Elyas
The 2008 Winner of Bundey Prize for English Verse The poem was inspired by a wonderful trip to the West beach, South Australia, Australia on 17-02-2008. I wrote it the next morning at Border's while having my usual Mocha.
Mr. Tariq Faisal Elyas holds two M.A.s from the United States, one in Applied Linguistics and another in American Literature and a graduate degree in TESOL.
Also, Mr. Elyas also has had a Chevening Fellowship in Intentional Law and Human Rights from University of Nottingham in England. Mr. Elyas has worked as a freelance writer for the two leading English Newspaper in KSA-Arabs News and Saudi Gazette. He has presented and published in various local and International conferences and journals.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. And he is the Winner of 2008 Bundey Prize for English Verse from South Australia. His interests are: Global English, Humans Rights, International Law, Language Rights, and Pedagogy.
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